The FBI is continuing the search for a 58-year-old man from California wanted for failing to appear for sentencing on child molestation charges.

Erik Kristian Moller, of Arcadia, is described as a white male, 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds, with blond-brown hair and blue eyes. He has a 3-inch birthmark on his lower back, a tattoo of a falling angel, and another of an Indian sitting on a horse on his upper arms, and a scar on his upper left arm, the FBI reports.

Authorities say Moller, who worked in the aviation fuel business, may have traveled from Miami to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in 2003 and has known ties to Denmark.

Between 1997 and 2000, Moller repeatedly molested a female victim, ages 10 through 14, giving her drugs or alcohol before the assaults. He was convicted on Dec. 18, 2002, of two counts of lewd acts on a child and released on bail pending sentencing.

Moller failed to appear for his sentencing on March 18, 2003, in San Luis Obispo, and was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in state prison.

A federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution was issued April 24, 2003.

Anyone with information about Moller is urged to contact their local FBI office or the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate.

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